By now you've heard all about it. Last week a youtube video of Dallas Maverick's forward Josh Howard mumbling ridiculousness about the National Anthem surfaced (warning: explicit language).
Training Camp
26 September 2008
4 August 2008
Training Camp Checkup: A team with two starting quarterbacks is a team with no starting quarterbacks
Friday Night Lights has come and gone, but the picture at quarterback has only gotten murkier. Every quarterback made his mark--be it positively or negatively. In his two series with the first team, Chris Redman, who is commonly projected to start the season at the top of the depth chart threw exactly one completion--to linebacker Michael Boley. Matt Ryan's first series went three-and-out and included an unspectacular intentional grounding penalty when Boley (again) came through the line and applied pressure. Ryan rebounded in the first series of the second half, finding Roddy White for a 60-yard TD pass.
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15 July 2008
John Clayton's July 9th blog ( http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=clayton_john) about the state of pre-camp signings portends more possible trouble for the Falcons organization leading into training camp on July 25. Clayton explains that agents trying to get pre-camp signings for first and second round draft picks have encountered what the military calls a snafu. Without getting too down and dirty, the sticking point in contract talks regards a rule that regulates increases in rookie salaries to 25 per cent, annually. Agents have made a practice exploiting a loophole in this rule that allows bonus money to be guaranteed for the final year of a contract in a lump sum. This protects players who bust out of the NFL before their contract expires and helps players who outperform the built-in strictures of their contracts. However, with the CBA ending in 2011, first and second round picks--who typically sign contracts of four, five, or six years--can't be guaranteed any money because there is no framework in place to do so. The bottom line: we're at an impasse.
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